caramboler

French

Etymology

From carambole.

Verb

caramboler

1. (transitive) to collide with

Conjugation

Conjugation of caramboler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	caramboler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	carambolant /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		carambolé /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	carambole /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl/	caramboles /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl/	carambole /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl/	carambolons /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.lɔ̃/	carambolez /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.le/	carambolent /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl/
	imperfect	carambolais /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.lɛ/	carambolais /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.lɛ/	carambolait /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.lɛ/	carambolions /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.ljɔ̃/	caramboliez /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.lje/	carambolaient /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.lɛ/
	past historic2	carambolai /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.le/	carambolas /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.la/	carambola /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.la/	carambolâmes /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.lam/	carambolâtes /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.lat/	carambolèrent /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.lɛʁ/
	future	carambolerai /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl.ʁe/	caramboleras /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl.ʁa/	carambolera /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl.ʁa/	carambolerons /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl.ʁɔ̃/	carambolerez /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl.ʁe/	caramboleront /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	carambolerais /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl.ʁɛ/	carambolerais /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl.ʁɛ/	carambolerait /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl.ʁɛ/	carambolerions /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	caramboleriez /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.lə.ʁje/	caramboleraient /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	carambole /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl/	caramboles /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl/	carambole /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl/	carambolions /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.ljɔ̃/	caramboliez /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.lje/	carambolent /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl/
	imperfect2	carambolasse /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.las/	carambolasses /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.las/	carambolât /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.la/	carambolassions /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.la.sjɔ̃/	carambolassiez /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.la.sje/	carambolassent /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	carambole /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl/	—	carambolons /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.lɔ̃/	carambolez /ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔ.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “caramboler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.